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Elisa Kreisinger
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Why Is Marketing Female Pleasure Still Taboo?
Elisa Kreisinger
Dec 7, 2018
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How Millennials Are Affording Early Retirement
Elisa Kreisinger
Dec 4, 2018
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Are Anxiety Products Making Us More Anxious?
Elisa Kreisinger
Nov 21, 2018
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It's Time To Unpack White Fragility
White people can't all be racist… right? After spending 20 years running diversity trainings for big companies, Dr. Robin DiAngelo has heard eve
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Elisa Kreisinger
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The Gender Pain Gap Is Real And Hurting Women
Women are more often sent to therapists instead of prescribed pain management solutions because doctors assume they are overly emotional. And when the pati
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Elisa Kreisinger
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What's The Deal With The Plastic Straw Wars?
It was dubbed The Straw Wars of 2018. The debate over plastic straws started when this disturbing video of a sea turtle injured by a plastic straw went vir
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Are We Working Ourselves To Death?
We need to talk about the new employment “trend”: overworking. Have you seen this ad for Timberland that informs us that we’ll never be able
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Debunking The Black Woman Gold Digger Myth
Black women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. They're also one of the most educated groups in the U.S. So why does the trope
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Elisa Kreisinger
Politics
WTF Is Reddit & Why Should We Care?
Reddit seems to combine some of the best and worst aspects of the internet. Filled with both helpful and hateful messages, it's yet another social med
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Elisa Kreisinger
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What's The Deal With Women Being Angry?
I never realized the extent to which women's anger and aggression had been a catalyst for change until I spoke with New York Times best-selling author
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Elisa Kreisinger
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What White Women Get Wrong About Feminism
When I asked Dr. Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage about the summer of BBQ Becky, Permit Patty and Pool Patrol Paula, she replied, simply, “wh
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Why Most Obituaries Are Still Of White Men
Looking at the Obituary section of the New York Times since it's first publication in 1851, you might think that 75% of people who die each week are W
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Rent the Runway CEO Puts People First & She's Still Profitable
Why do salaried employees get far more benefits than hourly employees? This week, I spoke with Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman, an entrepreneur who real
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Gender Blindness At Work Is Not What You Think
Professor Katherine Phillips from Columbia Business School says that, across five different studies, she found that women were more confident at work when
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Elisa Kreisinger
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More Women Are Running For Office Than Ever — Here's One
Is it time to replace the White men who have held elected office for over ten years? Alessandra Biaggi thinks so. In the midst of our political firestorm,
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Elisa Kreisinger
Movies
Glenn Close Open Up About The Personal Compromise Of Being The "W...
Who knew a movie called The Wife could be so interesting? Well, Glenn Close did. The Wife is Glenn Close’s new film based on the Meg Wolitzer novel of th
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Elisa Kreisinger
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After Years Of Being Blacklisted From Hollywood, Rosanna Arquette...
In a wide-ranging conversation with Refinery29 to promote her YouTube Premium series, Sideswiped, actress Rosanna Arquette opened up about her career, bein
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Elisa Kreisinger
Work & Money
Here's Why Women Are Told They Spend Too Much Money
My partner and I are first time homebuyers. Our new home is great but it needs some… curb appeal. Having never hired a contractor before, I scheduled
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Ghostwriting: The Invisible Career That Actually Pays Off
It's a typical refrain you hear from many women: they do all of the work but don't get the credit they feel they deserve. That feeling is backed
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Elisa Kreisinger
Beauty
Is The Skin-Care Industry Using "Self Care" To Scam Us?
I feel ambivalent about skin care being rebranded as self care. Don’t get me wrong, I love any excuse to look inward — but I’m literally stopping at
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Elisa Kreisinger
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This Woman Turned 40, Single and Childfree; Then She Had The Auda...
American women are marrying later and later, if they are even choosing the marry at all. But too many stories we hear and tell about women are about them b
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Actually, Nice Girls Do Get The Corner Office
Fran Hauser, former media executive, didn’t expect to write a book about kindness. But as a mentor to tons of young women, Hauser was always asked how sh
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Elisa Kreisinger
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What's Up With The Rise Of Wives On TV?
I’ve always felt really guilty about how much I enjoy watching any reality TV show about wives. I mean, there are so many! There’s The Starter Wife, Th
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Why Are Female Comedians Doing A Better Job Covering The News Tha...
Have you noticed that female comedians are doing a much better job of covering the news than…the news? There's Michelle Wolf, Kate McKinnon, Sam
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Elisa Kreisinger
Books & Art
Author Piper Weiss Reflects On Her Teenage Obsession
"If it could happen to us then it happens everywhere."
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Elisa Kreisinger
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When Ladies Get Paid Became Ladies Get Sued
In October of 2017, after hosting an all women’s event at a bar in San Diego, Ladies Got Paid became Ladies Get Sued for gender discrimination against me
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Why Is Bitcoin So Bro-y?
Even though Bitcoin seems to be a revolutionary way to disrupt wealth distribution, it also combines the sexism embedded in the finance tech industries int
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Elisa Kreisinger
Fashion
Russian Fashion Influencers, Fake News and Instagram
"I didn't know it was a fake news campaign originally. I thought it was real news! Over fashion week in February a couple of people sent me this PDF....It
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Zoe Saldana On Raising Her Kids In A Gender Neutral Home
"Either I join the voices of the defeated and I allow myself to be bitter, or I join the voices of the pioneers who are looking to reshape our narrative."
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Elisa Kreisinger
Work & Money
How Franchesca Ramsey Stopped Hating And Started Studying
“I realized that while I was hating her I should have been studying her. She was making all of the moves that I wanted to make."
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Elisa Kreisinger
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